The 227 residents of the Carter County community of Berwyn thought they had the key to growth and prosperity when the cowboy movie star Gene Autry bought a ranch nearby.
Oklahoma lawman Bill Tilghman, called "the greatest of us all" by another former deputy marshal, was shot to death outside a Cromwell dance hall by a federal prohibition enforcement officer.
An Oklahoma governor s widow who also had been his niece and was once his daughter drove her 1949 Studebaker out of Ponca City in 1953 and disappeared for
Oklahomans celebrated with the end of World War I with parades, noise, gunshots, a goat riding on a taxi cab s roof and even a mock hanging of German Kaiser Wilhelm.
A crowd estimated at 100,000 jammed downtown Tulsa to join festivities for the premiere of the "Tulsa" movie and to catch a glimpse of the stars in 1949.